Usually, passing your NQT is used as your performance management. If you think about it, you have had to prove your competency in many ways during your NQT year so that should be enough for them to move you up the pay scale.

There is no guarantee a teacher will move up on the pay scale at the start of a new year. Speak to your line manager or whoever will be doing your PM this year and ask them. The woman who does payroll may not know either your individual situation as a recent NQT or that October is the time for target setting, not reviewing.

If you've successfully passed your NQT year that should be enough evidence to move you up the scale. Our Governors meet in September to go through the anonymised data presented by the HT who has either recommended or not recommended an increment based on staff performance in the previous academic year. It could be that the Governors have not yet met to approve pay as some are not as on the ball as others. Wait until the end of October and if there isn't an increment then, speak to your HT.

That timetable isn't quick enough for us. We meet as Governors in the first two weeks of the autumn term providing we've had the pay guidance from the LA. We discuss the anonymised data in respect of the staff appraisals and we pay it from October.